South Jersey Real Estate Investors Association

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❗📢 VISITORS!!! Your FIRST SJREIA Meeting is FREE! Use PROMO CODE SJREIA when you RSVP ❗

⏰ Date: May 8, 2025 (6:30pm to 8:30pm)
➡ Cost: SJREIA Members attend FREE -- Visitors pay $20
📍 LOCATION: Town & Country Diner - 177 US-130, Bordentown, NJ 08505

🔶 Creative Finance & Lease Options (Selling Homes on Rent to Own)
Speakers Mike Scarpa & Jae Morales

We will be going over different creative finance strategies, case studies and how we BRRRR w/out the bank!

Who Are Mike Scarpa & Jae Morales?
Mike Scarpa and Jae Morales are 28-year-old real estate investors, entrepreneurs, and coaches leading the charge toward financial freedom. Originally from Bayonne, NJ, and Puerto Rico respectively, Mike and Jae left high-level careers in finance and law to pursue full-time real estate entrepreneurship in 2022.

Since then, they’ve completed over 100 real estate transactions—90% through Creative Financing strategies—and built a portfolio valued at over $3 million. They also purchased their primary residence, a lakefront home in Pennsylvania, with no money down and a 2.9% rate using creative financing!

What Do Mike & Jae Do?
Mike and Jae are the powerhouse team behind Roman for Homes, a virtual real estate business specializing in wholesaling creative finance and cash deals, including ovations.

Their team includes:
* 4 Full-Time Virtual Assistants
* An Acquisitions Manager
* A Transaction Coordinator

With expertise spanning over 15 states, they’ve closed deals through social media marketing, joint ventures, and referrals. While their primary markets are Pennsylvania and New Jersey, their reach is nationwide.
In addition to running Roman for Homes, Mike and Jae founded Roman’s Creative Academy, a coaching platform designed to empower others to build acquisition companies and achieve financial freedom. Their signature "Business in a Box" coaching methods have helped many investors achieve remarkable success.

Key Accomplishments
* National Speakers: Featured at various real estate events, including as keynote speakers at an upcoming retreat in Colombia (March 2025).
* Business from Scratch: Built a scalable, profitable company while living with Mike’s mom.
* Creative Finance Pioneers: Established a reputation for integrity and excellence in the creative finance space.

Future Goals
1. Help 10 aspiring real estate investors build profitable acquisition businesses in 2025.
2. Acquire a commercial multi-family property with no money down using Creative Financing strategies.
3. Expand their presence as speakers and podcast guests to inspire more entrepreneurs nationwide.

Connect With Mike & Jae
* Text/Call: 267-651-0144
* Instagram:
* @roman.with.mike
* @roman.with.jae

Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Cost: SJREIA Members attend free -- visitors pay $20
LOCATION: Town & Country Diner - 177 US-130, Bordentown, NJ 08505

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Please RSVP if you plan to attend so restaurant will have staff available for our group. Please plan to order something from the menu -- thanks!

Wholesaling Leader Stephen Chatto

Stephen is an accomplished real estate professional with over two decades of experience. His journey began in 2000 purchasing his first 3 family rental properties. A few more rentals and all was well, but he still needed to work. In 2012 he saw the possibilities available to him through wholesaling real estate. He decided to fully commit to real estate full time wholesaling to sustainably meet financial obligations and obtain more properties.
Over time, Stephen’s expertise in the real estate market evolved from wholesaling to purchasing multiple rental portfolios using the BRRR strategy, and most recently pursuits in private lending for truly passive income. Wholesaling has made him his own boss and he wants others to experience the same freedom. He has run SJREIA’s Wholesaling Subgroup since 2016.

Co-leader Roland Jefferson

Roland is a real estate wholesaler and a man of faith with a beautiful wife and 3 fantastic grown children. After much prayer for alternative ways to increase his income during his 17 years in corporate American, where he maxed his income as a performance engineering IT computer consultant, Roland discovered real estate wholesaling. He dove into the information age of free podcasts and YouTube University to gain an understanding of this new opportunity during his long work commutes to New York City. Eventually, Roland began working part-time in wholesaling real estate and as his education grew, he invested in advanced training and coaching to accelerate his knowledge and develop more consistent deal flow.

Roland has been blessed with the ability to replace and exceed his corporate income enabling him to be a full-time real estate wholesaler for the past 2 years. In addition to his love of winning in the wholesale arena, Roland also has a passion for teaching new wholesalers and helping them to achieve their own success. Roland believes in being a blessing to motivated sellers, serious cash buyers and anyone willing to learn and work as a real estate wholesaler in order to be a positive impact in the lives of others.
Meeting the 2nd Thurs every month.

Real estate wholesaling is one of the most powerful strategies for investors.

• How does it work?
• How can you get started, and be successful at it?
• If you currently wholesale, how can you find better deals and more profit?

Visitors are welcome to join at any meeting!
BECOME a member the same night (various membership options available, see below) and we'll credit your visitor fee toward your membership.
Email info@sjreia.org to receive your discount promo code.

Membership benefits include

• FREE admission to all main and focus group meetings
• FREE participation in our online networking 24/7 chat forum
• FREE access to our video resource library - 100's of hours of video replays from past meetings
• FREE to join our Home Depot 2% back rebate program + get 20% off paint discounts (terms and conditions apply)

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NEW!!! SJREIA Monmouth County Focus Group
Kick-off meeting is on ZOOM and free for everyone!

⏰ Wednesday, May 14, 2025 (7pm to 8pm)
👉 COST: SJREIA Members & Visitors attend FREE!!!
📍 ZOOM (RSVP to receive meeting link)

May 14 - Kick off (zoom)
In-person - Jun 11, Jul 9, NOT MEETING IN AUG, Sep 10, Oct 8, Nov 12

Mission Statement: SJREIA New Monmouth County Focus Group is to educate, empower, and connect real estate investors at all levels from aspiring to seasoned professionals. We are committed to providing valuable resources, fostering collaborative networking opportunities, and supporting the continued growth and success of our investor community through shared knowledge and experience.

Meet your Focus Group leaders:

Joel Kraut - Co-Founder & Managing Director Brrrr.com - O 732-851-6900 | C 732-598-0351 | E jkraut@brrrr.com
Operating as a real estate investor from the late 1990’s to 2014, Joel Kraut managed to purchase, renovate, and sell more than 100 houses in the Tri-State area, including the Philadelphia markets of Northern Liberties, Fishtown, Point Breeze, Newbold, etc. As an active investor, Joel Kraut scaled his portfolio to include 144 buildings home to over 1,000 tenants – nearly all of which were acquired within a three year span. Unlike most investors, Joel self-managed his entire portfolio, an experience that now informs much of the internal valuation methodology employed by BrrrrLoans. Throughout the early 2000’s, Joel Kraut built 185 single-family “McMansions” and 61 townhouses throughout the Tri-State area while serving as a partner in a mid-size, New Jersey based general contracting and remodeling company. Given his comprehensive background in completing extensive renovation and construction projects covering everything from fire restoration and vanilla home extensions to ground up construction of vertical condominium buildings and multi-millions dollar homes, Joel Kraut’s track record affords BrrrrLoans the ability to continuously improve its business model and practices by concurrently drawing upon the perspective of a borrower, contractor, and fund manager.
In the wake of the 2006 financial crisis, Joel initiated the liquidation of his real estate portfolio and turned his attention towards private lending. In his capacity as a one-man operation, Joel Kraut participated in the origination, underwriting, and funding of well over 1,000 loans secured by collateral throughout the Tri-State area. In doing so, Joel developed a reputation as the 360 degree solution to privately funding just about every type of property for every type of borrower.
As the Co-Founder and Managing Director of BrrrrLoans, Joel thrives on the day-to-day passion of every Brrrrloan fanatic he encounters.
Joel is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor’s degree in marketing and a minor in economics. He has an endowed scholarship at the University in his name. Additionally, he was a past proprietary options trader and a member in good standing of six exchanges.
In addition, Joel is the author of the book "7 Steps to Financial Freedom" (available on Amazon).

JoAnn Marable - Thriving for over two decades in multiple businesses, JoAnn Marable is a tenured Real Estate Investor, Realtor, Certified International Property Specialist and Certified Life Insurance Producer. Owner of JM Luxury Living LLC. Real Estate Investing and Development. Founder Inspirational Sisters Non Profit Organization. While leading multiple leaders, JoAnn has served as President of the Women's Council of Realtors of Middlesex County for 2021 and 2022. Honored with the role of New Jersey State Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee. 2023. Keller Williams Productivity Coach 2024-Present.

Jonathan Rouzeau - Realtor ® - Notary Public, Real Estate Staging Expert, kw / KELLER WILLIAMS West Monmouth

⏰ Wednesday, May 14, 2025 (7pm to 8pm)
👉 COST: SJREIA Members & Visitors attend FREE!!!
📍 ZOOM (RSVP to receive meeting link)

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⏰ Date: May 15, 2025 (6pm to 9pm)
➡ Cost: FREE for EVERYONE!
📍 LOCATION: 100 Independence WayPrinceton, NJ 08540

This meeting is not like any other event you attended before!!
OUR EXPERIENCED LANDLORD PANELISTS WILL DISCUSS:

• Tenant Retention
• Proactive Maintenance
• Lease Agreements
• Landlording is a Business
• Tenant-Landlord Law

Panel of experts
Paul Margaritis, Mike Bonadies, Mike Anderson, Guest Attorney (Landlord-Tenant Law)

Paul Margaritis is an owner and asset manager of a real estate redevelopment company dedicated to the revitalization of residential homes, small apartment buildings, and small mixed-use properties throughout Mercer County and other parts of New Jersey since 2004. Paul implements the BRRR (Buy, Renovate, Rent, Refinance) strategy. The combination of his ability to raise private capital to purchase at deep discount then converting to long term commercial bank financing has been an integral part of his success. Since 2022 Paul has invested as both a Limited Partner and General Partner in the acquisition of larger multi-family properties in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Raising Capital for the Syndication of these larger assets with over 1,000 doors and counting.

Mike Bonadies is a landlord and property manager. He currently owns 50 rental units in Camden, Gloucester, Cape May and Cumberland counties. He Co-Owns a property management company, TerraVestra Property Management, that specializes in managing rental properties specifically in the South Jersey area and Side By Side MRO which specializes in pre-1940 construction. Mike is also a farmer and owns a livestock farm in Vineland.

Mike has been a SJREIA board member since 2021. He worked as the membership benefit committee chair and worked on putting together the legislation committee.

Mike Anderson is a seasoned real estate investor in the South Jersey market. In a few short years, Mike accumulated a rental portfolio of over 20 rental properties while completing several fix and flip projects. During that time, Mike also took an interest in lending and became a licensed loan officer. More recently, he ventured into hospitality by founding a Short Term Rental Property Management company that services over 30 shore rental properties in Ocean County. Mike enjoys sharing his passion for real estate and helping others grow and succeed.

Guest Attorney (Landlord-Tenant Law) - to be determined

Hosted by Lauren McNally and Rich Rickards

MEETING SCHEDULE: DOORS OPEN AT 5:45pm

6:00pm - 7:00 pm – Visit with Business Affiliates & Networking
7:00pm - 7:30 pm - Announcements, Intros
7:30pm - 8:30pm - Main Speaker/Presentation

NEW LOCATION STARTING IN 2025 & 1 hour of NETWORKING before the meeting!
Now at the Holiday Inn - 100 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540
This is a FREE event for members and visitors -- everyone welcome!

8:30pm-9:00pm - Q & A

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SJREIA Main Meeting - The Real Estate White Space: Unlocking Untapped Markets to Revolutionize your Marketing Strategy

⏰ Tuesday, May 20, 2025 (6pm to 9pm)
👉 COST: SJREIA Members & Visitors attend FREE!!!
📍 The Holiday Inn, 2175 W. Marlton Pike (Rt. 70), Cherry Hill, NJ

➡ Click here to watch Jen Greene's VIDEO MESSAGE!

Are you looking for an untapped lead source that has NO competition, NO marketing costs and NO cold calling? That niche is by building strategic relationships with Attorneys
If we told you that there was a way that you could:

• Consistently get 2-4 deals a month with no competition
• Create INBOUND leads that you don’t have to chase
• Spend ZERO dollars on Marketing
• AND become the go-to in your market for this niche

Your first thought might be, “Yeah, yeah. If such a thing existed, I’d already know about it”.
But your second should be, “But just in case I don’t, tell me more”.
I wouldn’t be promoting this strategy unless it was real, and do-able, and something I thought you needed to know more about…and that’s why I’m thrilled to give you the chance to learn all about it at our May 20th meeting.

The strategy that can do ALL of this for you is by Building Relationships with Attorneys.

This is a way to not only get paid well for your hard work, but you are also creating a holistic solution for your referral partners, their law firm and their clients. Whether your attorney partners practice in the fields of:

• Probate
• Divorce
• Tax
• Bankruptcy
• Criminal
• Immigration
• Or whichever field YOU have a passion for…

…in a way you are creating a solution for your referral partners and their clients that washes away the “low ball” offer and creates a win-win for everyone.

Don’t Let the Knee-Jerk Reaction You Just Had Turn Off Your Brain…
You might be having a lot of thoughts right now about how you’re too new, or that building relationships takes too long, or it’s too much work, or that you need more money than you have to get started.
But don’t write off this high profit, fortune-building niche just because you THINK you know what it’s all about.
Instead, join us on May 20th and let Jen Greene share her experiences and show you:

• How to build relationships very quickly and leave your FIRST meeting with deals in your inbox
• How to turn expensive, outbound marketing into inbound deal flow with zero costs
• How to become the go-to in your market by building brand insistence
• How to leverage these relationships and have them do your marketing for you
• Real-life examples with houses purchased that prove these relationships are better than any other lead source you’ve used
• How you can single-handedly make a huge impact on the people you help by creating a “like, know and trust” approach better and faster than anyone else (and get killer returns while doing it)

US Reporter article on Great Deals First - Redefining Real Estate: How Jennifer Greene’s Empathic Approach is Changing the Landscape CLICK HERE

Bio - Jennifer “Jen” Greene is a real estate and business investor, serial entrepreneur, and the mastermind behind the coaching platform, Great Deals First. She has been featured on major networks like Fox, NBC, and CBS, and has earned numerous awards, including the Women’s Empowerment Award by the International Association of Top Professionals. Jen transitioned from a 15 year career as a criminologist, specializing in human trafficking, to a successful real estate investor where she has built her niche by creating strong, value-add relationships with referral partners across several professions.

Location: The Holiday Inn, 2175 W. Marlton Pike (Rt. 70), Cherry Hill, NJ
Time: Doors open @ 6pm - Presentation begins at 7 pm
FREE FOR EVERYONE!

MEETING SCHEDULE

6:00-7:00 pm – Visit with Business Affiliates & Networking
7:00-7:15 pm – Announcements
7:15-8:30 pm – Main Speaker/Presentation
8:30-9:00 pm – Networking (in the Lobby) and Room Clean-up
Open to the public! SJREIA is a networking and education association for all levels of real estate investors. We offer education in many different aspects of investing and offer unlimited opportunity to be with other like minded people.

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